Search results

Our pace was super bad last season but defense still wins games. If you sort the Kings games played last season by Opponent's points per 100 possessions, when we held opponents to less than than 112.5 points per 100 possessions (Barely out of the bottom 1/3 of the league) we were 24-17 and the...

If Joerger thinks ZBo, Koufas and Shumpert would actually help him win games he should be fired now, just to spare us the misery. Zach Randolph was the worst post defender and quite possibly the worst defender in the league with 500+ minutes. If I was Vlade, I would let Joerger know that if see...

Garrett Temple had a quietly bad season on defense. Zach Randolph being the worst post defender in the league stole the spot light. Sampson is actually our best wing defender and I hope we lock him up. We should be looking at bringing in multiple wings to see who works out, Justin Anderson...

Signing a guy who was 471 out of 521 in real plus minus in a career year...
Had a true shooting percentage < 50%...
Doesn't play any defense...
And has an injury history...
But signs him because he scored 34 on us, is such a Kings move. I believe that's called pulling a Mikki Moore.

90% of all NBA free agent signings are busts. We have a golden opportunity this year with so many teams facing the luxury tax and one of the only teams with cap space and we are going to blow it on a broken down Zach Lavine. In 15 years, the best you could say of any player signed by the Kings...

One point I never see mentioned, is that Cousins stopped playing defense this year.
http://www.espn.com/nba/statistics/rpm/_/year/2016/sort/DRPM
Last year his DRPM was 13th in the league. This year it's 162. Right behind Meyers Leonard. That probably added into the decision to move on.

Funny, I was thinking of suggestioning this on the personnel board. He was way more impressive than any of the three other Hawks picks in the Sunday game against the Wizards. Check out some of his passes on YouTube.

You're using a bunch of stats that should really only be used to compare teammates. Here is another one for you:
Cousins on the floor: +3.3
Cousins off the floor -8.4
Unless you think he should play the whole 48, the issue isn't Cousins this season. There really is only one stat that matters...

Well that escalated quickly.
After such high hopes, this is not a well coached team. We are dead last in FT% (64.0) and Opponent's FG% (50.4). It's scary how close those numbers are to each other. We actually had a 24 second clock violation coming out at halftime, I can't remember the last...

This game probably is the end of Ben's career in Sacramento. He is now posting a PER of 0.7. Worst of any starter (except Randy Foye if he's starting). And if you go to stats.nba.com Defense Tracking, Ben has the worst defense% of any of our rotation players. At this point it's time to get...

Playoffs.
As Lando said, "We are not going to get another chance at this."
Portland is a bottom team.
Dallas is relying on two guys coming off of surgery, and ancient Dirk and the worst PG rotation in the league.
Memphis is ancient all around, Zach Randolph is going into his 16th season...

Defensive ratings is not a stat to be used to compare players from different teams. It was also created a decade ago and we have better tools at our disposal now. For instance:
Ray
Defense Category Diff%
Overall 5.3
3 Pointers 0.9
2 Pointers 7.5
Less Than 6...

I think Ray gets a reputation as a defender since he is not a good shooter, passer or penetrator, so obviously he must defend. But by any metric you look at he was atrocious on defense. Obviously management realized it too, (and he hadn't improved at all since we drafted him) was why he was dealt.